Sarah Connor Has Failed -- the British Just Built Skynet

Skynet just went online. No lie! Remember a few weeks ago I reported that the British were deploying a military satellite program that beyond all comprehension they named Skynet? Well guess what.... The final satellite in the system was launched this week, and will allow high-bandwidth telecommunications between British forces located anywhere in the world. In addition to voice communications, it will allow data transfer and the remote control of robot airplanes, one of which is called "The Reaper." One of the manufacturers was quoted by BBC News as saying:

So, computers can talk directly to computers.

Hey if your feeling a discomfort in your abdomen right now - that's your bowels letting go.....

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Terminator kill-bots to be run by system 'Skynet'

Ok, when I first saw this story, I thought someone at the Register was spending way too much time in the john smoking something he shouldn't. But I followed a few of the links and it keeps getting stranger and weirder! Click on the article title for the complete story, here is a portion of the story:

Following the announcement of the new Flying-HK-style "Reaper" death machines for the British forces, the prophetic nature of the Terminator movies has been further confirmed.

Not only will the UK MoD deploy airborne cyber-gunships remarkably similar to those in the films, the flying robot assassins will be controlled by an IT project named "Skynet". This latest case of life imitating art comes with the news that the first of the Skynet 5 satellites has gone operational and is now successfully carrying data to and from British forces fighting in Southwest Asia.

Oh there is more! No I am not in fear of terminators arising and killing all humans...however you have to wonder at the sanity of of putting a system like this together, automating it and then blatently calling it Skynet! I don't know about you, but it seems to me to be a big FU in the face of the general public by whatever English governmental agency that is in control of this deal. Unreal!

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